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The KISS Album Focus

Posted on by Nils Brekke Svensson

The Kiss Album Focus IThis is the real Kisstory

Julian Gills ‘the Kiss Album Focus’ started as a feature on the Kiss Asylum website. Inspired by Dale Shermans work on the Black Diamond book. The project was supposed to be a “The objective of the work was to look into the history of KISS on an album-by-album basis. With the colorful history of the band there were many challenges the members faced during their path down the rock ‘n roll road to legend. It was that and other minutiae that I wished to document. Ultimately it was the depth and minutiae that I wanted to pack into the articles and stories that would never make it into a mass-market properly published work!” (Ref. Kissfaq.com). I have been eagerly following his writings on different Kiss-related stuff since I came in contact with him when he had a “Kiss collectors network” in the 90′s. And was looking forward to his first publication of The Kiss Album Focus long before the first edition came out. I was lucky the read the manuscript of the first edition before It came out, and It was easy to see that this was a special book in “Kisstory”. Continue reading →

KISS Kompendium

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Kiss KompendiumKISS Kompendium
By: Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley
December 2009, 1280 pages

The book every mailman must hate

First of all, lets start with the size. It’s huge!!! I could not believe the size or weight of the book when I first got It. The mailman must have been more than pissed when he brought It to my house.

I’m collecting of Kiss comics has been very sporadic during the years. Of course I have the original Marvel comics from the 70′s and the reprints and Kissnation magazines from the 90′s. I also collected about the first half of the Psycho Circus comics in the 90′s without reading them much really. But after that the comics have more or less gone ‘under the radar’. So you can easily say I haven’t been a big Kiss comic fan really. Even of I think the PC comics are really beautiful art wise.

The KISS Kompendium is a really beautiful book. And I have probably read more in the book in the years since It came out that I have ever done in the other comic books. I really like the idea of having all the comic books collected into one big “Kiss comic Bible”. Continue reading →

The Poster that got me hooked

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Kiss new giant show

This is one of the coolest pieces POSTER ever did on Kiss. It is also the first POSTER I ever saw on the day in 1978 when I “got hooked”. The Poster was beside a Alice Cooper poster on the wall at a friends house. My friend and I was inside his big brothers room looking for records to borrow. And he had Destroyer and Hotter Than Hell. So we listened on them for hours watching the Poster. And before the day was over both the records and poster was mine.

The small article to the right is from the back of the POSTER.

“At last, we cheer and click our heals together. The pictures from Kiss new gigantic USA tour has arrived and is inside the magazine. In the next issue we hope to tell you more about the show. But already we can tell you that they need seven trucks to transport the whole show from arena to arena. It’s sound, light and effects that nobody has seen alike before, everything is run by computers during the concert. The attendance at the concerts have been about 60 000 at the concerts.
In the USA there has also been released a special edition of their earlier albums (NOTE: The Originals) packed with giant posters and other cool stuff. It’s a limited edition of 200 000, and all have already sold out.” Continue reading →

Interview with Vinnie Vincent

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vinniesignVinnie Vincent on the phone

By: Stig Karlsen
From: ‘Kiss Army Norway Magazine’ #3 – 1996.

On Monday the 12th of February was Kiss Army Norway treated to a phone call from Vinnie Vincent himself. He called us to tell a little about the past with Kiss and about the future plans for Vinnie Vincent. At 6.15 p.m. (CET) did the phone ring. I was informed about the call, so you might understand that I was very exited as I picked up the phone

K.A.N.: Hallo!
VINNIE: Hello Stig, its Vinnie. How are you doing?

KAN.: Fm doing fine! How are you?
VINNIE: I’m fine, very very fine.

K.A.N.: It’s great to hear from you again!
VINNIE: Thank you very much. Thank you so much. Continue reading →

Interview with Ken Kelly

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Ken Kelly m Gods Of ThunderInterview with Ken Kelly

The man behind the Destroyer and Love Gun Covers
By: Stig Karlsen – most questions sendt in by norwegian fans.

What are your personal relations to KISS and their music? Are you a fan?

I have great admiration for them and their achievements and feel as a friend to both Gene and Paul. The other two I never really got to know that well. Yes of course I’m a big fan. Continue reading →

New Years Eve 1999/2000 with KISS

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New Years Eve 1999New Years Eve 1999/2000 with KISS

By:  Truls Søbakk

We lost our mind in VANCOUVER ROCK CITY.
You want Kiss. I know you do. That is why I am going to tell you about all that we went to see on the trip to Vancouver. Of course you will get an review of the concert also, but what about everything else that got Kiss to it. Anyway let me first tell you about the day of the concert, and the concert itself.

PART ONE – THE REVIEW.
No Kissfan with respect for Kiss and everything it stands for, can go the distance we did, without Kiss make-up. So we started to put on make-up at nine a.m the day of the concert. First of was Henrik Engebretsen who became Ace. Next of was Richard Kristiansen who wanted to be Paul, and Gry Thorsen became Peter. I, Truls Søbakk was Gene with my Dressed to kill costume on and then the Kiss line-up was complete. Continue reading →

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